#transphonia

[nightmareishomophobic]

"...Nightmare...?"

@lustsansisnonbinary

"Yes? What is it, Lust?"

[finstermond]

cool, and remember kids, for everything that is and should be common sense and obvious, there is a straight white man absolutely confused about

[nightmareishomophobic]

Shows Nightmare LGBTQ books * "there even in books" >:)

HES DROWNING OH GOD

[danepopfrippery]

Someone asked on blusky when ur egg cracked and even tho I'm afab and look afab I'm agender. So technically trans (I have feelings about it, like I don't face as much danger so it feels wrong, but also someone who blends as cis being trans can help so idk)

I literally never questioned my gender. I questioned my sexuality many times cuz cishet men are the worst. But never gender. I like performing girly. The happiest gender I ever was was when I looked like a game show pretty girl. Would not have guessed that.

Anyway what cracked that egg is my nephew is trans. And sick of transphobia I made friendofjims.com after ofmd and Vico Ortiz cuz it fits.

After hearing one too many times there are only two genders, I set out to find as many as I could. Off top of my head its 26 genders in chromosomes, 75 genders anyone can be, and 150 if u count ones u must be of a certain culture or faith to be.

And I did little write ups. And I learned agender is feeling ur performing gender (there's more to it that's a biggy). And based on posting on timtok at least 10 other ppl cracked when they heard that lol.

So I'm not only trans out of spite, I'm trans because transphobia made me learn about other genders

[wannabe-s-blog]

At the end of the month I'm talking to a surgeon about a gender-reaffirming surgery I might have. I feel excited and nervous. Mainly because I don't have the familial support I thought I would have. My mother thinks it's a mutilation of my body. My father looks scared when I talk to him.

Neither understands that I don't fit into the binary. That I like most of my body but would like to change other parts. And talking to a surgeon about that is even scarier. I'm not sure how this will go. But it terrifies me that I'm going into this completely alone.

[demonic-cultivation]

New rule: Cis people aren't allowed to write trans people anymore

[catelyngrant]

It’s impossible to get this far into the show and not discuss the potential transphobia inherent in this season. The series has made every effort to put emphasis on Norman’s dissociation (“It’s not me, Chick. It is her.”) and has, in past seasons, explored both his and Norma’s psychologies to bring depth to the inevitable Psycho quagmire the show was going to have to contend with. But given that Norman’s extant sexual issues are already used as markers of something Not Right (especially his voyeurism re: the Loomises), and given that the last episode gave us a wig-and-dress manifestation rather than relying on mental-picture Norma or Freddie Highmore doing a real-time dissociation, it’s hard not to see the show straining against the limits of its own setup and uncomfortable with where to go from here. (It doesn’t help to have scenes of Norman and Norma arguing about her dresses.) - (AV Club review)

So this is one of those moments where I remember that no matter how engaged I am in trying to be an informed person, I still miss a lot. I hadn’t considered that there could be some transphobic elements to the portrayal of Norman on the show, and now it seems like an obvious thing that should have occurred to me. Peripheral internet research hasn’t shown much discussion about transphobia in Bates Motel, though there is a lot of talk about it in Psycho, which - from my memory of seeing the film 10 years ago - seems pretty apt. 

Anyway, I’d be really curious to hear if anyone (especially trans+ individuals) have thoughts on the portrayal of Norman in Bates Motel specifically. I would like to think that the show has established his psychology well enough for the viewer to understand that this isn’t a trans character (the discussion of how his mental illness is portrayed is a different conversation, though also one worth having), but it’s honestly not something I’ve thought much about and, as a cis lady, don’t feel like I get to say one way or another. So if anyone has insight, I’d love to hear it! I love this show and the characters, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t problems to acknowledge.

[frogfinder]

Wow I didn’t know rape was not the rapist’s fault. I didn’t know that apparently innocent transgender people are pedophiles and actual pedophiles are not. The Duggars need to either punish their fucking son or die in a hole.